By Thomas Gaist | World Socialist Web Site | November 19, 2014 The US Defense Department (DOD) is developing domestic espionage and covert operations targeting “the general public” in coordination with the intelligence establishment and police agencies, according to a New York Times report. “The Times analysis showed that the military and its investigative agencies have almost as many…
By Global Research News | Earth Aware | 13 November 2014 Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently announced that Russia will no longer import GMO products, stating that the nation has enough space, and enough resources to produce organic food. If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We don’t need to do…
by Fazel Hawramy, Luke Harding | The Guardian | November 19, 2014 Coalition air strikes have not stopped the militant group from earning millions of dollars a week from its Iraqi oil operations Islamic State has consolidated its grip on oil supplies in Iraq and now presides over a sophisticated smuggling empire with illegal exports…
By Brandon Turbeville | Activist Post | 18 November 2014 Currently trending alongside Kim Kardashian’s photo shoot, a Missouri declaration of a State of Emergency, and Charles Manson’s marriage, is the news of the recent alleged beheading of an American citizen by Western-backed ISIS terrorists in Syria. The latest beheading video to allegedly emerge from ISIS reportedly…
GWPF | 19 Nov 2014 Tories Fear UK Pledge Of Millions To Climate Fund Could Lead To By-Election Defeat Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday warned that next year’s landmark climate change summit in Paris will fail if world leaders decide to put cutting carbon emissions ahead of economic growth. “It’s vital that the…
By Lawrence Woodward | The Ecologist | 24 August 2014 Sharply increased levels of crop spraying in Argentina’s most intensively farmed areas have resulted in a public health disaster, writes Lawrence Woodward, with large increases in cancer incidence. And it’s all the result of the widespread use of GMO crops engineered for herbicide resistance. A report by…
Jack Doyle | Daily Mail | 18 Nov 2014 Letters containing the detailed conclusions of the public inquiry into the Iraq War have been sent to the main participants, the Daily Mail understands. The revelation will increase speculation that the conclusions of the long-delayed inquiry could be made public in the coming months. Tony Blair…
John Chuckman | 19 Nov 2014 Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is reported by a spokesman, to have had the following exchange with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during the Brisbane G-20 summit: “Well, I guess I’ll shake your hand, but I only have one thing to say to you: you need to get out of…
William Blum | Anti-Empire Report | 19 Nov 2014 “Russia reinforced what Western and Ukrainian officials described as a stealth invasion on Wednesday [August 27], sending armored troops across the border as it expanded the conflict to a new section of Ukrainian territory. The latest incursion, which Ukraine’s military said included five armored personnel carriers,…
Jim Stone Freelance | July 18 2014 Military Commander: Passengers dead long before plane took off The bodies were dead for days before the flight, and smelling of rot, according to a top military commander at the scene – which would be expected if they were actually from Flight 370. They would have been loaded on…